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About Within Health Provider Services
Within Health has a revolutionary approach to the virtual treatment of eating disorders. We provide clinically continuous care, in the comfort of the clients own home. We provide excellent care 100% virtually and are a 24/7 company to ensure the care for our clients is superior than others.
About Within Health Provider Services
Within Health has a revolutionary approach to the virtual treatment of eating disorders. We provide clinically continuous care, in the comfort of the clients own home. We provide excellent care 100% virtually and are a 24/7 company to ensure the care for our clients is superior than others.
MUST BE LICENSED IN MICHIGAN
About The Role
The Primary Therapist is a minimum of a Master’s Level Clinician responsible for the individual and family therapy of specific clients, and group therapy for a group of clients. The therapist specializes in working with clients with eating disorders, is mature, flexible, and innovative, and brings a loving, positive attitude to our expert Clinical Team. The Primary Therapist works well with other departments to create a treatment plan for clients.
What You'll Do
- Establishes positive, trusting rapport with clients.
- Diagnoses and treats mental health disorders.
- Creates and updates individualized treatment plans according to patient needs and circumstances.
- Meets with patients regularly to provide services and treatment, and to adjust treatment plans as necessary.
- Coordinates and arranges for services needed for each individual client.
- Conducts ongoing assessments of patient progress.
- Conducts group therapy sessions according to program schedule.
- Involves and advises family members when appropriate.
- Refers patients to outside specialists or agencies when necessary.
- Maintains thorough records of patient meetings and progress.
- Follows all safety protocols and maintains client confidentiality.
- Communicates regularly with outpatient providers to ensure continuity of care.
- Attends weekly staff meetings to consult on individual cases.
- Attends weekly treatment team meetings to consult with clients about individual progress.
- Creates weekly individualized therapeutic and experiential opportunities for clients and communicates them to patients.
- Conduct concurrent insurance reviews for individual clients.
- Engage in ongoing advocacy work for mental health parity.
- Engage in community based speaking opportunities to increase eating disorder awareness.
- Other duties as assigned by the supervisor.
Qualifications
- Minimum of a Master’s degree in psychology, social work or related field. Must be fully licensed and can work without supervision.
- Must have active, unrestrictive, full licensed in Michigan
- Able to get licensure in other states when asked.
- Strong communicator, both verbally and in writing.
- Experience treating clients with Eating Disorders.
- Ability to demonstrate understanding of a variety of models and theories of eating disorders, trauma, mental illness, and related issues.
- Knowledge of philosophies, practices, policies and outcomes of models of treatment, recovery, relapse prevention, and continuing care for dually diagnosed populations.
- Understanding of diagnostic criteria for co-occurring conditions and ability to conceptualize modalities and placement criteria within the continuum of care.
- Understanding of diverse cultures and gender specific issues and ability to incorporate needs of gender and culturally diverse groups into practice settings.
- Excellent organizational and time management skills.
- Ability to prioritize workload and work independently.
Physical And Environmental Requirements
- Employees are required to read, review, prepare and analyze written data and figures, using a computer or similar, and should possess visual acuity.
- This position answers and places telephone calls as well as video conferences and must be able to converse.
- Must be able to converse with colleagues via telephone and computer programs.
- Must be able to operate a computer and navigate applications within a smart-phone, iPhone, MacBook computer and/or tablet.
- Able to sit for the majority of shifts.
- Must have reliable internet connection.
- This is a work-from-home position. Work should be performed in a private, quiet space with minimal background noise.
- Ability to prioritize workload and work independently.
The Pay Range For This Role Is
70,000 - 130,000 USD per year(Remote (Grand Rapids, Michigan, US))
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